Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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BOSTON--The ghost of Cornell simply will not leave Harvard. Two days after falling hard from first place in a bruising, 2-1,defeat at Bright Hockey Center, the lumps the Big Red left were visible as Harvard limped from one end of the ice to the other...
...possible, of the delicious pleasures of light, shade, drama, color and suggestive texture--not to mention the primal infantile pleasure of smearing colored mud around on a virginal surface--associated with making a picture? The piety of this search, seen as an act of exemplary denial, is the ghost that haunts the machine of American abstraction--and the emotionless grids of LeWitt's work in particular. Not all abstraction, of course, some of which (most famously, Abstract Expressionism) is as lush as Frederic Church's skies or Marilyn Monroe's cleavage. But enough of it to make up a distinct...
...turned this experience into what amounts to his own harsh Strindbergian Ghost Sonata remains a mystery. One can easily imagine someone less guilt ridden than Bergman regarding the incident more as a youthful folly than as a life-shaping event. The facts of the matter are mundane enough, as he says in his book. In 1949, Bergman and a journalist named Gun Hagberg, both unhappily married, entered into a passionate affair, beginning with a long tryst in Paris, and continuing after their return to Sweden, where she discovered she was pregnant with his child. A bitter wrangle with her husband...
...Part of truth telling is standing at the edge of the cliff and saying, I've got to see this, and then you jump," she says. "You don't know how you're going to land." Yamanaka is working on a new novel she describes as "a kind of ghost story," which may testify to the fact that she did land, only to take flight again...
...reinvented himself as an easy-to-take movie star, turning his back on hot jazz in order to serve up "musical comfort food" for the masses. But the cutting-edge Crosby of A Pocketful of Dreams remains undiminished by the bass-baritone blandness of his postwar incarnation as the Ghost of Christmas Specials Past. By concentrating on Bing Crosby the jazz master, Gary Giddins does him justice at last...